If every bureaucrat in the Philippines were to be checked American-style, NOBODY WOULD BE IN THE GOVERNMENT. Because everyone is simply corrupt. If every employee and citizen of the Philippines were to be checked like Americans check their cabinet and justice appointments, THERE WILL NOT BE FILIPINOS employed and sitting in the government.
If Ampatuan prosecution were done in America, American judge will have recommend to the prosecutors to watch CSI:Miami and CSI:NYC and plenty of Judge Judy, Mathis, and read plenty of americazn newspapers.

Renato Pacifico you have overkill your Filipino compatriots, there are still a lot Filipino government employees that are honest and it would be unfair to them to conclude they are all corrupt. Problem is the media have always sensationalize anomalies in our government system, well its their prerogative as journalist but are they fair in reporting the gains of our government. Another problem is their newspaper won’t sell if it contain less sensational issues. You should now that the US of A had it share of worst history, slavery, assasinations of their own presidents, colonize us for 50 years, currently occupies Iraq and Afghanistan in the in the jest of liberation these countries of tyrants and weapons of mass destruction which resulted to countless lives wasted. Now did they found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to this point, it is still wanting. The only weapons of mass destruction I know in Iraq is its oil.